“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war – who went out to battle – and the other for all the community.

These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral ¹  tribes.

You must take one leader from every ¹  tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance. ² 

Their inheritance must be apportioned ¹  by lot among the larger and smaller groups.

“These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance: ¹  Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

Then Moses commanded the Israelites: “This is the land which you will inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to be given ¹  to the nine and a half tribes,

From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men, ¹ 

Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give ¹  the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.